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BURGESS MERIDITH (1907-1997) IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE (ORIGINAL SERIES):
S01E08: TIME ENOUGH AT LAST, AS HENRY BEMIS
S02E29: THE OBSOLETE MAN, AS ROMNEY WORDSWORTH
S04E09: PRINTER'S DEVIL, AS "MR. SMITH" (THE DEVIL)
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Messed around with texture and composition for this one. This also marks a first successful attempt to draw an icon for myself! :D
Give me a 🔁 if you 💟 what I do!
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I just found out you like the Twilight Zone! Please talk about your favorite episodes, if you have the time!
Oh yay, sure! I started watching the Twilight Zone about five years ago and it’s become one of my top 3 favorite tv shows of all time. It’s creepy, and I have a low tolerance for psychological horror, so I take my time watching it. But my favorite three episodes are a lot of other people’s faves, too.
I think the very best one is It’s A Good Life. This kid is born with godlike powers—he can do anything—but he chooses to make everything the way he wants it. He transports his whole town out of the world or destroys the rest of the world—the townspeople aren’t sure which. Their lives revolve around keeping this kid happy, because if he’s ever upset, he does terrible things to them. He doesn’t like it when people look at him like he’s the monster he is, so he strikes them blind, or turns them into toys, or, if he even hears you thinking unhappy thoughts he sends you “to the cornfield.” Which is basically death. The whole town is constantly telling the boy that everything he does is good, and everything they feel is good, and they’re always telling each other to think everything is good. And eventually one guy stands up to the boy (the boy’s name is Anthony) and gets fed up, and Anthony kills that guy, then makes it snow, which kills all the remaining crops in the town, and the people just sort of go… “I guess we won’t have food now. That’s a good thing you did, Anthony.” And it ends.
Because the thing is, all of the stuff that sets Anthony off—all of his little pet peeves that everybody tiptoes around—they’re actual good things. He doesn’t like other kids because they don’t always do what he wants. He doesn’t like dogs because they are afraid of him. He doesn’t like music, or television, unless it’s what he creates. He thinks suffering is funny and he likes to make up vicious creatures, then kill them, and have everybody approve of it.
Anthony is forcing everyone to behave like what is really good is actually bad, and what is really evil is actually good. He flips right and wrong on it’s head, and everyone goes along with it out of fear.
I also love Eye of the Beholder, even though it’s on the nose. (HA. Get it) The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine is incredible too. That idea that nostalgia for whatever you thought was the best time of your life can actually imprison you…and you don’t even know it’s a prison. And it keeps you from embracing and growing in and loving the rest of your life.
And Where Is Everybody, for those of you who’ve never seen The Twilight Zone, is the very first episode, and it just perfectly captures the weird “what is going on” vibe that draws you into the show.
I think there are two things that make me love The Twilight Zone.
The first is that every episode “makes you think.” Usually they don’t have conclusions where everything is explained, or resolved; Anthony is not defeated, Barbara Jean stays in the movie screen with no explanation of how she got in there or what will happen to her now…but the fact that the storytellers leave it like that literally forces you to think more about what you just saw.
Your brain naturally goes, “yikes, the kid just gets to keep making life a nightmare? Don’t like that. If I were in there I would’ve just knocked him on the back of the head. Why didn’t anybody do that?” And by having to think about it more, you aren’t critiquing or arguing with the actual story. You’re thinking it over, trying to figure it out, because you naturally accept that there is something there to be worked out. The “message” of every episode gets under your mental guard, works it’s way into your worldview.
You watch “It’s a Good Life” and realize that not everything is “good.” Sometimes there’s plain evil that can’t be reasoned with or explained away in the world, and you just have to stop protecting yourself with pretending otherwise and do something about it. The townspeople should’ve all stopped pretending and worked together, or been brave enough to realize stopping the monster or dying trying was better than living in fear.
And that brings me to the second thing I love about The Twilight Zone: every episode has a message. It has something it wants you to think about. It’s not just tickling your suspense-responses, or giving you a brain worm about nothing but creepiness. It’s not trying to get you “in your head” to “figure it out.”
I know I just said it makes you think, but it specifically makes you think about something real, a concept that affects real life. The Twilight Zone answers enough of your questions with each story to make you think about the lesson, and doesn’t give you enough information to be like, “I’m going to figure out the Easter eggs, and the backstory behind how everybody in Eye of the Beholder got pig noses!”
The Twilight Zone makes it obvious that there are important questions to ask when you watch a story, (like, “Why didn’t everybody work together to kill Anthony?”) and there are useless, unimportant questions to ask when you watch a story. (Like “where did Anthony’s godlike superpowers come from?”) And it specifically engineers each story so that you’re more emotionally involved with the RIGHT questions, instead of the arbitrary questions.
Nowadays everybody’s like, “let’s figure out exactly where that Easter Egg came from! Let’s see if we can figure out what version of Arthur’s narrative is the REAAAL one in The Joker! I can’t actually verbally explain what Christopher Nolan was doing but I totally got Tenet.” 🙄
I’m tired of stories that are all shock-&-awe and no meat. The Twilight Zone might ask you simple questions, but they’re really good, important ones to have answers to. And the artfully suspenseful, show, don’t-tell episodes of The Twilight Zone make those questions stick in your head and your heart.
#The twilight zone#ttz#twilight zone#it’s a good life#eye of the beholder#rod serling#classic television#old hollywood#1950s television#old tv#tv#television#asked#answered#thank you#storytelling#writing#themes#man idea#thesis
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ANNE FRANCIS and JAMES BEST in THE TWILIGHT ZONE | 4.07 JESS-BELLE
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Rod Serling was so done with the USA
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looks like a land of both shadow and substance, things and ideas in here.........
(fanart for The Twilight Zone season 4, episodes 1 & 2)
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Round 1 of 8, Group 7 of 8
propaganda and summaries are under the cut (May include spoilers)
A.P Bio: 4.01 Tornado!
Begins with a set up that should be familiar to many Midwestern students: a tornado drill. The concept of avoiding the mighty power of a tornado by gathering in a hallway and hoping it doesn't notice you is ripe for comedic possibilities.
The Twilight Zone: 5.03 Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
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So I've been watching the twilight zone
#twilight zone#rod serling#im in love with him#old school sci fi is superior#sci fi#science fiction#old sci fi#60s#ttz#the twilight zone
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it's really funny that like, all of these Twilight Zone revivals just..... completely misunderstand what made the original Twilight Zone so good.
Twilight Zone (2019) just seems like it's trying to imitate Black Mirror.
Other than the narrator mentioning "the twiligt zone" at the end of the episode, pretty much none of these things have anything to do with the Twilight Zone.
like, the original mostly follows the formula of:
Everyday normal people have weird and supernatural / scifi / political horror things start happening to them
They're either innocent bystanders, about to learn a life lesson, or they're the perpetrators of their own doom
Usually some kind of deal is brokered, a bargain is made, or there is a turning point of some kind, where the characters are offered a choice to turn back to their normal lives or continue on their journey [into the twilight zone]
Usually, those who make the wrong choices (moral corruption for the sake of personal gain, usually) end in ironic tragedy, while those who strive to do good win, in some shape or form, even if their ending is also tragic, they have still put good into the world, still saved lives, still had meaning in their personal tragedy.
The world is strange, amazing, or horrifying place-- our characters must learn to cope when their world is suddenly turned on it's head--
Weather this manifests in a man's fear of airplane flight allowing him to save the lives of everyone else aboard the flight at the cost of his own personal freedom, or a man obtaining a pocket watch that freezes time only to break the pocketwatch during an act of vengeful pranking, trapping him in time forever--
the like, core, fundamental value of the Twlight Zone is the Mystery.
The Question.
Whatever question is posed at the beginning of the episode, it's always there, and it always get answered in the end; there's always some mystery, some hook, to get you on the edge of your seat, to capture your interest....
and none of these revivals... have that.
There's no mystery, there's no hook, especially with the 2019 revival, it just seems like all they're doing is imitating Black Mirror with their blood and swearing and sex scenes and torture screaming scenes and 'beating someone to death' scenes, and *occasionally* making references to the original as though that gives them credibility??
Like. S1 E7 is called "Not All Men" and it's literally Biological Essentialism, saying that all men are inherently evil and they have to "choose" to be good instead of giving into the temptation to kill everyone around them.
with the exception of 1x03 "Replay", nothing in The Twilight Zone (2019) even remotely approaches the quality and themes of the original The Twilight Zone (1959) ; at this point, the revivals are only being called "the twlight zone" to get viewers--
Twilight Zone's various revivals (especially this 2019 one) would be better off standing on their own two feet instead of desperately trying and failing to imitate the original charm and mystery of the 1959 original.
The Twilight Zone 2019 is desperately trying to make important political commentary, and outside of 1x03 Replay, it's failing pretty miserably with it's mixed metaphors, derailed conversations, and focusing on the shock value of swearing and blood and sex scenes to pad the runtime instead of devoting their attention towards actually telling a coherent storyline lol.
like, you know your Twilight Zone revival is failing miserably when your audience is scoffing at the Narrator proclaiming the characters are about to enter/leave ~The Twilight Zone~ because there's nothing twilight zone about 90% of these episodes.
( i do like that they gave him an ice cream cone, though)
#The Twilight Zone#TTZ#The Twilight Zone (2019)#The Twilight Zone (2002)#The Twilight Zone (1985)#The Twilight Zone (1959)
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I kinda want one of the Magnus Archive episodes to be narrated by Rod Sterling (As if it were an episode of The Twilight Zone) except all of the characters are aware of the narration and extreme confused about where this man came from, what he's doing, and why they never see him again after that.
(Rod Sterling, in this universe, is an eldritch entity that just loves travelling around the multiverse and watching the most fucked up stories you ever did see. See: The Twilight Zone)
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Some people need to watch The Monsters are Due on Maple Street and learn a lesson
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Julie Newmar as Miss Devlin
The Twilight Zone - Season 4 Episode 14 (1963)
“Of Late I Think of Cliffordville”
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um.. heres something from sep last year.. this have been rotting inside my drafts..... this is rly um.......
muffled moans and groans echoed through the quiet library, the people making the sound not even bothering to cover it up.
you looked around the library, raising an eyebrow at this. you were wondering which couple was living their fantasy inside the library.
the closer you got to the shelf that you needed to go to, the louder the scandalous sounds became. till it suddenly stopped, giving you peace of mind.
you quickly made your way to the bookshelf and browsed through the books you needed. unfortunately, you failed to notice the couple getting it on near you.
you neared the corner of the library and were soon met with the college fuckboy and the college jock fucking.
you stared at them with disgust as you grabbed the book you needed, quickly stumbling your way away from them and out of the library.
"mmh, you got tighter. getting caught turns you on or something?" the jock asked.
the fuckboy stared at the retreating boy, his eyes laser-focused on him. "nah, that boy was kind of cute. who's he?"
the jock racked his brain while trying to figure out who exactly was that mysterious cutie. "oh yeah, yn ln from the uhh business department i think?"
the fuckboy nodded, and a hum escaped his lips.
the jock stared at him dumbfounded "uh you're gonna keep going or what?"
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Incident one hundred miles off the coast of Guadalcanal. Time: The present (April 1963). A United States destroyers, on what has been a most uneventful cruise. In a moment, they're going to send a man down thirty fathoms and check on a noisemaker - someone or something tapping on metal. You may or may not read the results in a naval report, because Captain Beecham and his crew have just set a course that will lead this ship and everyone on it - into the Twilight Zone.
The Twilight Zone | 4.02 The Thirty-Fathom Grave
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